Wonder Woman #21 Storytime

The Truth part four!

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>Shut up, Steven.
Heh!

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Next:
>“Godwatch” part four! Veronica Cale will do anything to save her daughter. If that means destroying the Amazing Amazon, it’s a small price to pay.

Then:
>“The Truth” part five! The conclusion to Diana’s search for the truth takes her on a journey into darkness. But the price of understanding may be one sacrifice too many for Wonder Woman…

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The end

>naked Ares
hawt

ok so how did he get here and why is he in chains?

Thanks for posting, OP.

Can't help but speculate what Izzy and Ares do to pass the time in here.

Fucking based

Turns out he's a fan of Depeche Mode.

A well-built, attractive guy in a loincloth, chained, and calling himself Ares? Good thing this is comics; IRL he would be a manwhore.

Bump

What's the point of being the Rebirth incarnation of Doctor Poison if your bullets aren't laced with some magic toxin?

Best line in the entire issue.

So mother fucking salty that she has been so nutered.
She is suppose to take punches from Skyfathers & take nukes to the face with little more then scratches, fuck this god damn hack!

Superpower Wonder Woman sucks. She shouldn't be Superman with tits.

Fuck you, she should be better.

Fuck off. She shouldn't even be able to fly. Bring the invisible jet back!

Sharp is brilliant when he takes his time.
Shame the monthly schedule forces him to rush a lot of his work.

>Shame the monthly schedule forces him to rush a lot of his work.
Not really, not a single one of his issues in this run looked bad or even poor.

go to comic vine if you want to bitch about this power level bullshit

With this issue I finally figured out why I don't like this run so much. No one has a personality. They are just THERE to push the plot along. It doesn't help that the art highlights this. Most of the art is simply talking heads. No body language. No splash pages. No interesting angles. No interesting use of colors. No interesting expressions. Just blah. This whole run is utterly blah. The single attempt at humor fell like a rock. Diana is so utterly dull. Steve is so utterly dull. The rest is so utterly dull. How can you make a comic about a super powered woman with links to the gods of Olympus boring?

Oh, fuck off with yourself. I am tired of this wavering power level. Let her fly. Make her bullet proof. That's doesn't make her invincible when her foes are gods. It makes the battles tougher and bigger. Some punk off the street shouldn't be able to take down Wonder Woman with a gun he bought at Walmart. And if he could, write that damn story. That would be more interesting than this shit town garbage.

No! She's not Superman! Fuck off! She should be as strong as Herakles, who wasn't ridiculously strong.

Herakles didn't fly either.

I've always wondered why would an Island of isolated people build a jet and never use it to fly off the Island? What did they do with the jet? I can't imagine Themyscria being all that wide. More like the size of Puerto Rico. On horse back you can get from one side of the Island to the other in a few hours.

Why? Why can't she be strong? What's wrong with her bring strong?

Because it was done just to draw parallels between her and Superman. It didn't do her any good. Specially when they still her to be weaker than Superman. It adds nothing. Just create more complications.

If amazons can fly, why the jet? If she's invulnerable, why the bracelets? And so on.

It add nothing to her. Even more so now that she's Zeus' child and not the gods' champion. She should be a lot more weaker.

>If amazons can fly
I only want HER specifically to fly.

The bracelets are used to hold down her power. They are like a dampening force. The jet still makes jack all sense except it's a nice place to keep her stuff while she is traveling. (How does it even run? I doubt there is a gas station on Paradise Island.) I hate the jet. It is a ridiculous addition.

>The bracelets are used to hold down her power. They are like a dampening force.

That's fucking stupid, though. She should be less powerful as Zeus' bastard, not MORE.

Exactly. She is the special one. She is the champion. She is the one that was either breathed into life by the gods (after being formed by clay) or the child of Zeus. All the other Amazons shouldn't be special. Maybe immortal at the most but not special.

Why? Zeus' children in mythology had varying degrees of power. Why can't Wonder Woman simply be super strong?

If her being Zeus child should make her able to fly, then why any other Zeus bastard were never able to fly?

None of them were ever as superstrong as she is shown to be.

Because most of the time Zeus just picked whoever was close and hot, but Hippolyta was the strongest non-deity woman in the world (and maybe stronger than some goddesses as is). No shit Diana would be head and shoulders above the rest of Zeus's brood, those other bastards weren't lucky enough to have the Queen of Amazons as their mom.

>but Hippolyta was the strongest non-deity woman in the world (and maybe stronger than some goddesses as is).

She isn't. Stop bullshiting.

>No shit Diana would be head and shoulders above the rest of Zeus's brood

Not even children he had with other goddesses were as strong as she is shown to be.

Wonder Woman the champion to various gods? Yeah, i can take she's powerful. She receive powers from various gods and goddesses.

Wonder Woman the bastard of Zeus? Fuck no. She should be as weak as Herakles was. Her strenght and resistence should be akin to Aquaman's.

Why couldn't Diana shape shift like Dionysis? Again, all the children of Zeus had varying degrees of power. It was a crapshoot as to which powers you were going to get.

No she shoudn't, she's a lot weaker than Superman, as she should be

You don't think Ares would be as strong, if not strong than Diana? Apollo? The guy who pulls the sun across the sky in his chariot?

>Dionysis

His mother died while he was still a fetuses and Zeus then nurtured him into health by sewing the fetal Dionysis into his thigh. That's why he gained extra skill points.

Unless Zeus birthed Diana himself, then no. She should be weak.

They should all be more powerful than Diana because they were not demigods.

Diana as the bastard of Zeus should be weak as fuck.

Why you arguing about god power in a comic book? The gods in Wonder Woman have done so many things that the gods of Greek myth have never done. For example, when have the gods ever stolen someone's face? Transformed someone is nothing new but steal a face? When have they hung out in America? When have they built a whole damn island to hide away women?

I'm guessing she doesn't succeed and those are still the two brothers since this is the present?

buff as hell, shot twice, and still kicking ass. this is how Wonder Woman should be. screw that breaking chains bullshit.

>No more Azzres
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT. THEY BETTER HAVE A DAMN GOOD EXPLANATION OF THIS.

well, until a few minutes ago it was just her face... so I'm going to guess being really annoyed at his sons for sending the annoying part.

This

A lie. There you go, make your peace with the fact Azz Wondy is gone.

Usually I don't mind the rebirth banner but it's really detracting from the gorgeous colors in this instance

A trickster god? Make it so that it's Hermes, the god of thieves and lies was behind it all along. I could work with this recon.

If a trickster worked for Superman, Lois and their superson, it could work here.

>A trickster god? Make it so that it's Hermes, the god of thieves and lies was behind it all along. I could work with this recon.

Rucka is a hack and doesn't care, he won't tie anything together

Only good thing Rucka has done with Rebirth WW is to BTFO of Injustice fags bullet-proof apologists

>Ares is a hunk again

Thank you based Rucka.

.......(small voice) I liked old man Ares.

He felt like something Gaiman would have come up with.

>Rucka is a hack and doesn't care, he won't tie anything together
Sad.

I think that this would be more impactful if Izzy wasn't drawn looking like the thirty year old retarded woman who works at the Wal-Mart I frequent. And, you know, if anyone not named Greg Rucka actually gave a shit about Veronica Cale.

>Ares isn't blonde or ginger

Only the garbage ones aren't

I think you skipped a page, user

Looks like Xanatos.

That's the first page of the story. Page 2 was the variant cover.

Rucka whole run is my biggest dissapoint in Rebirth. It's not a bad story, but is bland. Seems like a huge fanfiction to try to make WW in all his headcanons.

That's exactly what it is. He's going full NOT MUH.

Pretty much.

He's in chains inside the tree. If you look at this whole story, it's a retake of the very first arc with Cheeta. It's a nice narrative trick.

It'd doesn't help that the changes he is making don't really add anything exciting to the mythos. Doctor Poison as a gun toting goon squad and holographic personal assistant Dr. Cyber aren't interesting at all.

Given how much he looks like Steve, you really, really want to avoid coloring him blond. And I don't know about ginger... I mean, if they really are going to show some Jason dude, Jason, as in the argonaut, was a ginger guy. So...

>Given how much he looks like Steve

Steve has a beard now. And Ares should have the flaming eyes.

Right, but if you give them blond hair and strong built you cannot really tell them apart if you put them as background characters, is what I mean. And they're going to be in the same panel as such at some point in the future, I bet.

It's a design choice.

I'll just never understand why people who don't like Wonder Woman think it's totally fine to demand that she be changed so that they will like her.

If you don't like her powers, move on, go find another character, because you're demanding something that's been part of the character for decades be changed just to match up with your skewed perception of what the character "should" be.

I have read every single post-Crisis issue of Wonder Woman and not once was she ever depicted as bullet-proof, except once in a shitty alternate timeline.

What's the point of clearly showing she's not bulletproof only to have her shrug off two bullet wounds like they're nothing? The wound on her right side is a through and through directly through her shoulder socket and the wound on the left is a through and through that would have torn through her stomach and lung, if not her heart too.

>Steve has a beard now.
Which makes him look like Ollie. SHAVE, YOU DOOF.

But Not Muh can be good or at least...fun. Geoff Johns and Keith Griffen are two of the biggest not muh's in the industry. This is just...sad. Like someone who was never that good to begin with.

Stop posting on Co Greg.

Already have...for now. Movie Synergy will save us. Maybe.

Johns and Giffen understand that sometimes something classic has run its course or doesn't work very well and have no problems changing a character into something they think will work better with the stories being written. I think Rucka's revamp of Doctor Cyber is a good change, even if he's not using it well, but his Cheetah stuff comes off as kinda pointless and a little waifuing and his Doctor Poison is hot garbage.

Personally I can understand rebooting the Amazons despiction.but i am upset about throwing under the bus the Azz Olympus. It was a cool portrait and fit well when they are next to the New Gods.

It was also miles better than Rucka's stereotypical urban fantasy setup of the Greek Gods in his prior run.

And those gods had distinct personalities. None of this "MWAHAHAHAHAH! WE'RE EVIL! WE WANT POWER! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!"